Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1874 — Page 1

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

"*' Condensed from Telegrams of Accompanying Dates. Saturday, January B.—A Berlin telegram to the London Daily Telegraph says that the German Government has absolutely resolved to 'abstain from any Interference with the Inner ecclesiastical organization of dioceses during their struggle with the ltoman Church, and to confine Its action to rigorously repelling any encroachments of the Bishops upon State rights No official information haß l>e#n received in Washington confirmatory of the report from Madrid respecting indemnity to he demanded by L the Spanish Government in the case of the Virgiuius, nor is it considered probable that any such claim will be presented. .... The number of deaths in New York city in 1873 was 79,059, of which 1,169 were from violent causes. The number of marriages registered in the city during the year was 8,805, and the number of births 22,587... .One thousand workmen have been recently discharged from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.... At the recent municipal election in Memphis, the Republican ticket was successful by majorities of about 800 and upward. John Logue is the new Mayor. Monday, January 5.—A famine is prevailing in five districts of the Russian province of Samara.... Two votes were taken in the Spanish Cortes on the 3d in which a ma- . Jorlty of twenty was given against President Casteiar. As soon as the result was announced General Pavia sent an officer to the Chamber with a letter demanding the dissolution of the Co'tcs. Senor Saimeron and others urged Casteiar to continue in power, but their prayer was refused. A company of the Municipal Guard then entered the palace of the Cottcs and expelled the Deputies. General Pavia, with his .staff, held a position outside, with cannon pointed at the building. General "Pavia was subsequently arrested, and his forces disarmed. A new Govciumeut was then formed, as follows: President ,Serrano; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sftgasta; Minister of War, Zavala; Minister of Justice, Figuerola; Minister of Agriculture, Becerra; Minister »f Finauee, Echcgarray; Minister of the Interior, Garcia Ruiz; Miuister of Marine, Topcte.... An attempt was recently made to kill Judge S. T. Morris, an active prosecutor of the corrupt Brooklyn (N. Y ) City Ring, by the agency of jin infernal machine that was sent to bis house. The Judge opened the box, but fortunately the matches did not strike in such a manner as to explode the torpedo contained in it. ....A New York telegram says the entire number of railroads which are in default is more than 115, representing an indebtedness on their interest accouut of more than $27,000,000....1t has been decided by the United States District Court in Chicago that a National Bank cannot be thrown into bankruptcy under -the bankrupt 1aw....A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch says the engineers’ strike has died so quietly .that hardly any one knows just the process of its termination. Most of the engineers who can obtain employment have gone to work. .... The Executive Committee of the Labor-Re-form party of Tennessee lias issued an invitation to the Labor-Reformers aud Fanners of the West and South to take measures for calling a convention, to meet in St. Louis on the 22d of February next, in order to resist the alleged unjust combinations of Eastern mouopolists and capitalists: Tuesday, January 6.—Seuor Casteiar, In a letter addressed to liis country, says he must protest with all ills energy against the recent coup tl' etat at Madrid, lie concludes: “My conscience will not permit me to associate with demagogues, and conscience and honor refuse to allow ine to accept a situation created by bayonets.” Several members of the majority which voted agaiust Casteiar have since approved of the stand he has taken. The national militia in Madrid is being quietly disarmed. • The force which is besieging Cartagena accepts the new Government.... The overthrow o the Casteiar Ministry is favorably received in Havana. The Imperial Spanish cout-of-arms has again been placed on the palace of the Captain-General. ... .Heury Clews & Co., of New York, have resumed their banking business, announcing the fact in a circular, in which they warmly thank their creditors for their forbearance, and declare tlieir readiness now to pay alt their obligations in fu11.... Governor Taylor and the other State officers elect of Wisconsin have been installed at Madison, with the usual ceremonies.... Two Leglslaarc in session in Louisiana, representing the Kellogg and the McEucry Governments. The latter body has no quorum, nnd does not propose to do anything more than prepare an address to Congress. Gov. Kellogg’s message to his Legislature is devoted largely to the finances of the State, and the statement of a plan for restoring its credit by funding its debt at sixty cents on the dollar... .The case of ex-Benator Pomeroy came up for trial at Topeka, Kansas, on the sth. He did not appear in person, but his attorneys made application for a continuance for thirty days, which was denied by the court and his bail declared forfeited. Wednesday, January 7.—A Havana telegram savs the Home Government has granted, without restriction, the extraordinary powers demauded by Captain-General Jovdlar... .It is said to be the opinion, in official and diplomatic circles in Washington, that the Spanish Republic is practically ended .James C. Husted, Republican, has been elected Speaker of the New York Assembly....ln the Minnesota House of Representatives, the vote for Speaker wsb: A.>R. Hall, Republican, 53; John Davidson, Opposition, 49.... The Ohio House of Representatives has chosen Geo. L. Converse as Speaker. The resolutions to censure Congress for passiug the Salary grab act, were reported back to the House so as to include President Grant for not vetoing the, bill. The Republicans sought to .get a division of the question, so as to vote first on censuring Congress, and in their failure to do this, voted solidly against all the resolutions. They were adopted by a unanimous Democratic vote.... The Supreme Court 1 of Texas has decided that the law under which the lats election in that State was held is unconstitutional, This law directed the polls to be kept open but one day, in contradiction of the provisions of the Constitution, which requires them to be open for four days. Under this decision, the sitting State officers hold over till the Legislature orders a new. election. Thursday, January B.—A storm of great severity bag been prevailing throughout the East, extending far into the South, almost totally cutting olTall telegraphic communication wjfb New Y*rk and W&SUsytDjj,

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A Cincinnati dispatch says the force of the great storm seemed to have centered about in that parallel and one hundred miles east of there. At Columbus, Ohio, the storm prostrated all the telegraph lines leading from the city except one. The sidewalks in all parts of the city were covered with branches pf trees broken down by the weight of ice collected on them.... An increase of freight rates from Chicago to the East has been decided upon by a conference of railroad men heldatNew York.... Two men named McEwan and Smith, of Bay City, Mich., who had been afloat on a cake of ice since the 31st uit., have drifted ashore at Pineoning. They were both alive when rescued, but were very much exhausted and could not talk much, to give particulars. They had been afloat for six days and nights, without anything to eat except a small piece of raw fish. A party of six persons left Alabaster on the 4th, in a fishing boat, to rescue Smith and McEwan, and it is feared they have all been lost as the boat has been found capsized in the water, six rods from shore, near Whitestone Point.... A resolution has been adopted by the Illinois Legislature “ That we emphatically condemn the law passed by the Forty-second Congress increasing the pay of members of Congress and other officers of the Government, and instruct our Senators and respectfully request our Representatives in Congress to use their best endeavors to secure the unconditional repeal of said law; aud we hereby declare our conviction that the Constitution of the United States should he so amended as to prevent any future Congress from increasing the pay of Its own members; aud we hereby express our earnest request that immediate measures be instituted by Congress to secure this end.’’... .The Grand Jury of Chicago have indicted David A. Gage, exTreasurer of the city, for the crimes of perjury and embezzlement of the public funds.

FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

Monday, January 5. — SeAate —The report of the Secretary in reply to the resolution calling for information as to the amount of compensation received by Senators since the organization of the Government, was received and laid on the table... The House bill to repeal the Bankrupt law was reported from the Judiciary Committee, with sundry amendments.... Several resolutions of inquiry and instruction were adopted.... A bill was introduced and referred to regulate and facilitate commerce across navigable rivers forming the boundaries of States... .The House Salary bill was taken up, together with the reported amendments striking out the first three sections and substituting therefor the seclion repealing the act of March 3,1873, and fixing the salary as it was prior to the passage of that act, and further providing that the compensation of the several heads of the departments be SB,OOO per annum; after debate, an amendment was offered and discussed, providing that Seuators, Representatives nnd Delegates of the Forty-third Congress who have received their compensation since March 4, 1873, at the rate of $7,500 per annum, shall hereafter be paid In Buch monthly installments as will make it aggregate for the whole Congress at the rate of $.>,000 per annum... .Discussion was had on the question of finances.... A message from the President transmitting the correspondence is regard to the Virginias, was received, laid on the table and ordered printed.... Adjourned. House —Among the bills introduced and referred were—for the appointment of a commission of three persons on the snbject of wages and hours of labor, and the division of profits between laborand capital In the United States, and the social, educational and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, etc.; for a uniform system of railway transportation in the United States; to provide a uniform currency; repealing all the acts imposing taxation on State hanks and bankers; to create a National Board of Trade and prescribe its duties; to legalize a pontoon railway bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Cbien, Wls. .. The Army Appropriation btttr appropriating $28,449,916, was reported and made tno special order for the 13th.... The Supplementary Civil Rights bill was debated at considerable length... .The message from the President in relation to tbo steamer Vlrglnltiß was read and referred... .Adjourned. Tuesday, January o.— Senat bill for free banking was taken from the table aud referred to the Finance Committee....A resolution instructing the Finance Committee to report ahlll abolishing the oftlce of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and to piovide for the collection of taxes by States, was indefinitely postponed. ..The House joint resolution authorizing Edward Young to accupt a present from the Emperor of Russia was passed....A hilt was introduced and referred authorizing the President of the United States to request the Republic of Hayti to indemnify Antonia Pcllitier for his imprisonment, spoliation a»d damages, amounting to $613,8*0,. . The hill to repeal the Increased Salary act, was further debated, Mr. Carpenterstating that he intended to vote for the repeal, not because he thought the” increased pay excessive or unjust, but "because its repeal was demanded by the people. Messrs. Conkling and Edmunds would vote for and Mr. Flanagan (Texas! would vote against the repeal... .Executivesession and adjournment. Home.— A bill was introduced and referred for the construction of ship canals around Niagara Falls and at the mouth of the Mississippi. ... .A joiat resolution wag introdneed and referred reciting that well authenticated reports stated that in certain localities of the Sonlh the people were in a condition of starvation, owing to the failure of their crops, and directing the Secretary of War to issue army rations in such quantities as might be required....A resolution of the Virginia Legislature protesting against the passage of the Supplementary Civil Rights bill was read and referred.... A lengthy debate was had on the Supplementary Civil Rights bill, the principal speeeh being by Mr. Elliot (colored) of South Carolina, who advocated the passage of the bill. His speech is reported to have been very eloquent and was listened to .with marked interest aud attention by members on both sides of the House and by crowded galleries, and at its close he was very generally and loudly applauded.., .The Naval Appropriation bill, appropriating $16,500,8.6, was reported and made the special order for the 15th.... Adjourned.

Public Debt Statement.

The public debt statement for January 1 is as follows: Six per cent, bonds $1,218,128,150 Five per cent, bonds 501,478,800 Total coin bonds $1,722,208,950 Lawful money debt * $13,878,000 Matured debt... Legal-tender notes 378,58',389 Certificates of deposit 38,720,000 Fractional currency Coin certificates 37,^43,308 Interest.. 42,54 1, 025 Total debt $2,291,792,287 Cash In Treasury— . _ C0in........ $91,479,10* Currency 4,277,861 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit as provided by 1aw.,,..,,.,.............. 38,720,000 Total In Treasury. $132,476,981 Debt, less cash In Treasury $9,159,315,328 Increase during month...., 8,453,272 Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 61,823,519 Interest accrued and not yet paid ' 1,988,705 Interest paid by United States....;.. 90,417,986 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc.... 4,886,054 Balance of interest paid by United States. v 15,781,931 —The 13 flouring mills of Minneapolis, with if 6 run of stone, have manufactured since Jan. 1,1873, 555,900 barrels of flour, using 2,585,950 bushels of wheat. —Another thing we got by getting Alaska—got to make a coast survey of the 26,000 miles of sea front that, oompaeees that lefeWsrjg.

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THE VIRGINIUS AFFAIR.

President Grant’! Message to Congress Relating to the Virginias Controversy. The President, on the sth, sent the 'following message to the Senate and House of Representatives: In my annual message of December last, I gave reason to expect that when the full and accurate text of the correspondence relating to the steamer Virginfus, which hod been telegraphed in cipher, should be received, the papers concerning the capture of the vessel, execution of part of its passengers and crew, and restoration of ship and survivors would he transmitted to Congress. In compliance with expectations then held out, I now transmit the papers and correspondence on that subject. On the 26th of September, 1870, the Virginius was registered in the Custom-House at New York, as the properly of a citizen of the United States, he having first made the oath required by law that he was the true and only owner of said property, and that there was no snbjcct or citizen of any foreign Prince or State directly or indirectly, by way of trust, confidence, or otherwise interested therein. Haying complied with the requisites in the statute in that behalf, shcclearcd, in the usual way, for the port of Curacoa, and on or about the 4th of October, 1870, sailed for that port. It is now disputed that she made the voyage according to her clearance, and that from that day to this she has not returned within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. It is also understood-that she preserved her American papers, and that when within foreign ports she made the practice of putting forth a claim to American nationality, which was recognized by the authorities at such ports. When, therefore, 6he left the port of Kingston in October last, under the flag of the United States, she would appear to have had, as against all powers except the United States, the right to liy that flag, aud to claim its protection, as enjoyed by ail regularly documented vessels registered as part of our commercial marine. No state of -war existed conferring upon the maritime powers the right to molest and detain upon the high seas a documented vessel, and it cannot be pretended that the Virginius had placed herself without the pale of law by acts of piracy against the hurntiu race. If her papers were irregular or fraudulent the offense was one against the laws of the United States, justifiable only in their tribunals. When, therefore, it became known that the Virginius had been captured on the high seas by a Spanish man-of-war; that the American flag hud been hauled down by the captors; that the vessel had been carried to a Spanish port, and that the Spanish tribunals were taking jurisdiction over the persons of those found on her, and exercising that jurisdiction upon American citizeus, not only in violation of international law, but in contravention of the provisions of the treaty of 1795, I directed a demand to he made, upon Spain for the restoration of the vessel and for the return of the survivors to the protection of the United States; for a salute to the flag and for the punishment of the offending parties. The principles upon which these demands rested could not be seriously questioned, but it was suggested by the Spanish Government that there were grave doubts whether the Virginius was entitled to the character given her by her papers, and that, therefore it might be proper for the United States after the surrender of the vessel and survivors to dispense with the salute to the flag should such facts be established to their satisfaction. This seemcj to be reasonable and just. I therefore assented to it on the assurance that Spain would then declare that no insult to the flag of the United States had been intended. I also authorized an agreement to be made that, should it he shown to the satisfaction of this Government that the Virginius was improperly bearing the flag, proceedings should be Instituted in our courts for the punishment of the offense committed ngainst the United States. On her part, Spain undertook to proceed against those who had offended the sovereignty of the United Btates, or who had violated their treaty rights. Their surrender of the vessel and survivors to the jurisdiction of the tribunals of the United States was an admission of Hie principles on which our demand had been founded. I thcrefoic had no hesitation in agreeing to the arrangement finally made between the two Governments, an arrangement which was moderate and just, and calculated to cement the good relations which have so long existed between Spain and the United States. Under this agreement, the Virginius, with the American flag flying, was delivered to the navy of the United States at Bahia Honda, in the Island of Cuba, oh the 16th uit. She was in an unseawortliy condition. In the passage to New York she encountered one of tlfb most tempestuous of our wiuter storms. At the risk of their lives, the officers aud crew placed in charge of her attempted to keep her afloat.. Tlieir efforts were unavailing, aud she sunk off Cape Fear. ’ The prisoners who survived the massacres were surrendered at Santiago de Cuba on the 18th uit., amd reached the port of New York in safety. The evidence submitted on the part of Spain to establish the fact that the Virginius, at the time of her capture, was improperly bearing the flag of the United States, is transmitted herewith, together with the opinion of the Attorney-General thereon, and a copy of the note of the Spanish Minister, expressing, on behalf of his Government, a disclaimer of any Intent of lndigtiity to the flag 6f the United States. (ffigned) U. 8. Grant. '' o -

SINGULAR PETRIFACTION.

The Young Bride of a Lawyer Visits Her Husband’s Cabinet and Inquisitively Breaks Open a Geological Specimen, Drinks the Watery Contents and Speedily Becomes a Petrified Corpse. From Louisiana, the land of political intrigue, orange blossoms and sugar cane comes the following apochryphal story, which is published with the usual mental reservation, and which the readers of this paper are advised to take cum grano tali*. The incidents arc furnished by a Louisiana physician, aud run about as follows: Mr. Frederick Hallers, a lawyer, about two months ago married a charming young girl of sixteen. On the morning after the wedding, the young bride with some of her friends visited her husband’s study to look over a, cabinet of geological specimens which he had beforctimcs gathered. (Among these were several round bowlders obtained in Arkansas. These bowlders on being broken are usually crystalized throughout and present a very beautiful appearance. On this morning the young girls, assisted by a colored servant, broke open one of the largest specimens, and in the center, instead of rock crystal, was found a half-pint of what looked like water, bnt Was really a concentrated solution of silica in water. This they put into a tumbler, and the bride, lifting it to her lips, drank first to the health of her husband, and then pledged her unmarried friends in the room, wishing that they might be happytSrides like herself, and then drained the glass of its contents. At first her action was looked upon as a merry joke, hnt in a few minutes the young bride complained of excessive pain in the stomach, and In the course of three-quar-ters of an hour she was a corpse, and her whole body became as hard and inflexible as stone!

The physician who tells the story says: “On minute examination and inquiry I found that the diMblved silica the had token into

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her stomach had been absorbed and transmitted by the chylopoetic apparatus aDd blood vessels throughout the system, and that her whole body was a petrifaction. The case being so singular and so Budden, the husband and the bride’s family consented to a partial post mortem examination, other medical men coming to my assistance. “We found it impossible to cut through any portion with our scalpels. Dr. Ferguson broke his scalpel in the first attempt. We were able only to break through the chest with a hatchet, finding extreme difficulty in entering the thoracic cavity, the contents being all solidified. The heart was found as firm and as solid as stone, resembling a piece of cornelian gs to both color and consistency. “It is well known by physiologists that those proteine compounds—albumen, fibrin, casein and gluten—are the proximate or organic elements, along with pome other ultimate or inorganic elements, which constitute the components of the human body. The proteine compounds arc formed by carbon; hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen in definite proportion, according to Professor Kolliker, thus: C 40, 1131, N 5, O 12, each having a different amount of phosphorus and sulphur; this combination forming so many molecules. Now, silica is a compound of oxygen and silicon. In a very small amount of silica the number of atoms of silicon is immense. The very moment the silica enters the circulation and is distributed throughout the capillaries, it parts with its oxygen, aud each atom of silicon being set free, combines with a proteine molecule. These proteine molecules, which form respectively the albumen, the fibrin, the casein, and the gluten, at once change these organic elements into what might he termed petrifaetive elements, destroying, as it were, the vital germs, and substituting inorganic proteinaceous principles.”

BROUGHT TO LIFE.

A Maine* Murderer, Supposed to be Dead and Burled, Turns Up In Missouri, as a Bandit Chief, More than twenty years ago, V. P. Coolidge, a young physician of excellent standing in the city of Augusta, Me., murdered Edward Matthews, a cattle drover, by enticing him into his office, and giving lilm brandy in which he had piaeed a quantity of prussic acid. Coolidge was arrested on suspicion, and after a long and exciting trial he was convicted third sentenced to he hung, after the expiration of the year’s imprisonment always accorded to those convicted of murder in that State. Daring the period of his confinement, his sister, a young and beautiful girl, was permitted to visit him, but his health gradually gave way and before the year expired his death was announced, he was hurried, and for the time forgotten. The warden of the prison resigned his position, married the sister, and moved to parts unknown. Not long after the discovery of gold in California, a gentleman conversant with the case, and who had followed others to the gold mines, sent word to Augusta that he had seen and conversed with the supposed dead man. This caused considerable excitement in that sober city, and the body supposed to be his was exhumed. His own father swore that the remains were not those of his son. Officers” were put upon his track by the friends of the murdered man, but they were unsuccessful, and nothing had ever been heard further concerning him until within the last thirty days. Recently, ft party traveling through Missouri met a gentleman who knew the history of the case, and he stated that he had met Coolidge frequently within the last two years under an assumed name; that he recognized him at sight, and charged him with being the man; that he at first denied it, but finally acknowledged his identity, and informed his interrogator of all the important facts connected witli his escape. He said, that while in prison, he ate very sparingly, feigned sickness, and finally a body was procured from Portland and interred as his remains, and lie was furnished with money and started for New Orleans, where he remained but a short time, and left, and since that time he has been traveling almost constantly, never stopping long in any one place. The gentleman referred to above gave it as his opinion that, from the description of the leader of the lowa train robbers, it was no other than the escaped murderer, V. P. Coolidge.

NEW YORK. January 8, 1874. Cotton.—Middling upland, 16@16?4c. Live Stock.—Beef Cattle—s9.oo®l2.7s. IlogsLlve, $5.37([email protected]; Dressed, $0.50 47.75. SheepLive. [email protected]. Bkeadstupps.—Flour—Good to choice, $7.25(3 7,75; white wheat extra, [email protected]. Wheat—Nc 2 Chicago, [email protected]; lowa spring, $1.59®1.63; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Rye—Western and State, 1.05®1.06c. Barley—[email protected]. Corn —Mixed Western afloat, 83!4@85c. Oats—New Western, 63@64c. Provisions.—Pork—New Mess, [email protected]. Lard—9®9?»c, Wool.—Common to extra, 47®58c. CHICAGO. Live Stock.—Beeves--Choice, $5.25®5.50; good, [email protected]; medium, $1.50® 1.65; butchers, stock, $3.25®4.25; stock cattle, [email protected]. Hogs—Live, $5.60®5.66; Dressed, $6.2546.50. Sheep—Good to choice, $4.5t®5.00. Provisions,—Butter—Choice, 30@3Se. Eggs— Fresh, 23@24c. Pork—New Mess, $14.65® 14.70, Lard—BS@9c. Breadstupts. Flour—'White Winter, extra, [email protected]; spring extra, $4.75®6.25. Wheat -Spring, No. 2, $1.22®1.22?i. Corn—No. 2, 52 @5514c. Oats—No. 2. 39*@40c. Rye—No. 2, 7814® 79c. Barley—No. 2, $1.43®1.45. Wool.—Tub-washed, 40®52c; fleece, washed 36®46c.; fleece, unwashed, 25@32c.; palled, 35®40c. CINCINNATI. Bbiadstupps.—Flour—[email protected]. Wheat—sl,s3. Corn-*57862c. Rye—9Bc. Oats—4l@soc. 8ar1ey—51.40651.55. Provisions. Pork @B*e. BT. LOUIS. Livx Stock.—Beeves—Fair to choice, $4.25® 5.25. Hogs—Live, $’>[email protected]. BreadstuPps.—Flour, X X Fall, [email protected]. Wheat-No. 2. Red Fall. [email protected]. Coru-No. 2, 57@58c. Oats—No. 2. 44®15c. Rye—No. *, 60® 82c. Barley—[email protected]. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, $15.00®15.25. Lard—--B*®9c. MILWAUKEE. Breadstcpps.—Flour—Spring XX, $5.70®6.25. Wheat—Spring No.l, $1.23>[email protected]; No. 2,1.21® 1.21*. Corn-No. 2, 58@59c. Oata-No. 2, 38® 38V4c. Rye-No. 1, 78@77c. Barley-No. 2, $1.46 ®1.47. DETROIT. Breadstupps. Wheat Extra, $1.61®1.62. Corn—64®6sc. Oats—44®4sc. TOLEDO. Bbiadstupps.—Wheat—Amber Mich., $1.54® 1.54*; No. 2 Red, $1.44®1.45. Corn-Mixed, 60 @6lc. Oats-No. 1.45@47c. CLEVELAND. Bbradstupp*.—Wheat—No. 1 Red, [email protected]; No. 2 Red, $1.48®1.4t, Com-62®86c. Oats-46® 48C. BUFFALO. ,« Lite Stock.— Beeves life, s3,CT>®3.#>. 86WP-UW, IKWOB.W.

THE MARKETS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. To curb a fast young mftt— Bridal him. St. Louis is delighted over her bridge of size. To make money—Get an appointment in the mint. A good occulist is prepared to meet all difficulties as they are eyes. Embroidery representing ivy leaves is the latest, and very handsome it is.' The taste of poetry, like that for potatoes, is different in different individuals. A Wisconsin man has sued his ■wife for slander, and he wants $50,000 damages. Artificial wants are more numerous and lead to more expense than natural wants. The National Republican says that Washington City is “comparatively a sinless city.” Carl Benson says that the proper temperature for a bed-rpom is about sixty degrees. When your antagonist is getting the better of you, the best way is to “strike out”—for home. A New York paper says that a baldheaded man will marry three times to any other man’s once, all things being even. A word to prosy lovers—lt is not only those women who wear ear-rings whose ears are bored. If the average modern lecturer’s wit is not always clear, it certainly isn’t for want of straining. Cannibalism flourishes in America. Here, for instance, is an advertisement for “a good girl to cook.” A Connecticut clergyman, who had a donation party lately, has beans enough to last thirty-seven years. The man who still thinks there are only twenty-six letters in the English language is not connected with the postoffice. God made man to goby motives, and he will not go without them any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gus. Ladies carry to parties nowadays bouquets of wax flowers, heavily perfumed, and so adroitly arranged as to pass for natural flowers. “He was a good man,” says an lowa paper of a deceased citizen, “but then he sometimes bet on the wrong horse, the same as the rest of us.” Judge Christian, of Lawrence, Kan., married a couple the other day and look his fee in butter. The parties belonged to the cream of society. A large meteor fell in East Nebraska City, Nebraska, recently. I was about one foot and a half in diameter and yearly six feet in circumference. The Jewish Messenger says Christmas trees are a religious ceremony in which Jews are not interested, and considers that “they promote a venial error.” It could not have been so in the days of Vigilantes; he still lives—the Ban Francisco man who advocates tight lacing because it prevents waist-fullness. There is said to be a vigorous conversationalist in Livingston County, Ky, who will hang his hat on a gate-post and talk to it ten hours on a stretch. TnK only infallible method for discovering what the weather is likely to be on any given day is to wait until that day arrives, and find out for yourself. An exhorter out West recommended the Christian religion to the ungodly, because he had been a church member fifteen years and it hadn't cost him but 15 cents. The first marriage at Hebron, N. H., within a period of fifteen years recently took efface. It is said to have excited much interest among the inhabitants. Ziba Darlington of Chester County, Pa., recently discovered a tortoise marked “Z. D., 1820,” which ho recognized as the work'of his hand fifty-three years ago. Stebbins says: “Elderly people ought to retire early at this season of the year. It is better for their health. Besides it gives the young folks a better chance.” A Dubuque young lady gave up the man she loved and took the one. her parents favored in consideration of the sum of three dollars and a sky-blue merino dress. Persons with small capital are advised to take a three-acre sand patch in Virginia and raise five thousand dollars worth of peanuts on it. It has been tried with success. .

A poutce court judge at Biddeford, Me., lias decided that Confederate money is not counterfeit, and so discharged a woman who had been paying her debts in that way. . — ; The President appoints all postmasters whose salaries are above SI,OOO. Tim railroads pay for the delivery of all mails at terminal points. At other places, the government pays. The Golden, Age says Prof. Agassiz “took the island of Penekese from Nature and gave it to science.” The prevalent opinion hitherto has been that he took it from John Anderson. A touching feature of the Boston tea doings was a group of sentimentalists, who stood for an hour, in the chilling fog, looking contemplatively into the water of the wrong wharf. The Smithsonian Institute at Washington was founded through a bequest made by James Smithson, of London, England. It was formally accepted by Congress in an act passed Aug. 10,1816. The quotation “ God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb” is not found in any part of the Bible, as is so often erroneously supposed, but occurs in Sterne's celebrated work entitled “Tristram Shandy.” Among the curiosities at Fort Yuma, Arizona, is a gigantic “ prairie schooner” of 30,000 pounds capacity. Baid vessel is drawn by fourteen mules, the smallest of which is fifteen hands high, and weighs 1,350 pounds. The baneful habit of opium eating is increasing in this country. From three to five years of indulgence wrecks the finest constitution, the eyes are sunken, the frame *is emaciated, and death ends the wasted life. ' The officials of a village near Wethersfield, Connecticut, have forbidden one Weatherwax to raise onions on' his cem. etery lot. For this unwarranted restriction of his rights he has determined to shed no more tears. Gun flints are made by chisel and hammer—the flint being easily converted into its peculiar form, when freshly quarried. A skillful workman can easily produce 1,000 well formed flints in three days. Made principally in England. Ax instance of the tyranny of mein was

exhibited at a woman’s rights meeting in Titusville, where a gentleman entered and told his wife, one of the officers of the meeting, to come home quick, “as the baby had the colic.” She went. Visiting cards for this season are of the finest unglazed Bristol board, and a, little larger than formerly, Some are in delicate tints. The shape is more oblong than square. The London styles for gentlemen are very small—those for ladies very .large. Absolute purity of soul, is, perhaps, never seen here upon earth. There is so much all about us impure and unclean, that we cannot pass unsullied. Our souls early lose the whiteness of their youth, and are thenceforward soiled beyond our cleansing. How familiarity begets indifference. A Maysville (Ky.) paper relates that when the first steam-mill was put up in that county, and the engineer turned the steam-cock to try the steam, “ the hissing sound and dense white vapor not unfrequently scattered the crowd like frightened sheep.” Professor Le Conte, in the American Naturalist , in his paper on economic entomology, gives an instance in which all the caterpillars in a nine-acre piece of woods were destroyed by a disease which had been communicated to them by a sick silkworm. The samo principle might be used in destroying the cotton worm and others of like nature. Boston has grown tired of being snubbed by New England towns that boast their six-toed babies and doubleheaded calves and ancient marines who have captured the devil-fish, and has squelched the ambitious rascals, by telling.about her young woman with two wooden legs, who in the past year has refused fifty odd matrimonial proposals. Young ladies about to be married, tenderly preserve your intended husband’s love letters, though never so calfy they may be. You may find a world of com-fort-in them, as that poor woman at Oshkosh can tell vou. She says there is nothing like it, looking over the old letters and reading “My dearest darling angel, Heaven alone knows the depth of love for you,” just after the writer, now her husband, has finished kicking her down stairs. The LaGrange Reporter desires to call the attention of the press of Georgia to the following matter: Within the last three months two or three well-known men in Georgia have been announced dead, and the newspapers have written eloquent obituaries over them. But these men, with a perversity as provoking as it is inexplicable, still live. IJpw, when a newspaper in good standing makes the solemn assertion that any man is dead, that man should die. . For him to live, is a dangerous infringement on the liberty of the press. We hope the Press Association will petition the Legislature to pass a law that a man announced dead by the press must die.

Short Talk.

BY JOSH BILLINGS.

Most every one luves to listen to a slander, but thare ant but phew but what dispise the author ov it. What a heartless world this would be if thare waz no tears in it. - - _ Thare are but phew people here belo that hav branes enuff to amuze themselfs. Wize men are.never surprized, while phools are alwuss wondering at every thine that happens. After trieng for more than forty years to hav mi own way, I hav finally cum to the konklushan to split the difference. Without m'unny, without friends, and without impudence, iz about az low down in this world az enny man kan git, and keep virtewous. ' Beware ov the man who lz alwhss reddy to swop old friends for new ones. The dog that will phollow everyboddy, aint worth a kuss. Thare iz nothing that a man iz so certain ov az he iz ov what he sees, and yet thare iz nothing after all that deceaves him oftner. I know ov menny people who ain’t happy until they hav red the last book out; theze folks quite often git phull, but seldum git phatt. One ov the most perfekt viktorys yu kan achieve over enny man iz to beat him in politeness. The rarest artikle quoted in market just now iz good common sense. Yung man yu had better be honest than cunning, and it iz hard work to be both. The world at large judge ov us bi our

sukcess. It ought to kure the pride ov enny man when he reflekts that there ain’t no one living but what owes more to the world than the world owes to him. To be familiar with every one and preserve yure respekt, and their esteem, iz an eviaense of the most remarkabel tallents. l’oo mutch branes in a man’s hed iz like too mutch milk in a pitcher, must be carried with a dredful stiddy hand or it will slop over. The best abuzed woman ov the 19th century iz the average mothe-r-in-law. Wize men sometimes bild air kastles but tare them to pieces w hen they git thru; it iz only the phools who bild them and then undertake to liv in them. A klear coasbience, plenty to eat, and a good digestion, are the three best kards in the pack. The best bill ov fare I kno ov iz a good appetight. 1 konsider forms and cerimonys the mere triks ov civilizashun, but to observe them iz the only way i knoov to protekt ourselfs aginst the common herd. Sum folks never git reddy ; they are al wuss behind hand; they will sum ov them be too late to tend their own phu■neral. . Whenever yu cum akrost’ a man who <iz telling evryboddy he meets how long iteiiax wore the pair ov boots he haz got on, yu kan safely konklude that man iz' filling hiz destiny, and aint good for eunything else mutch. Kultlvate a taste for walking, it iz not only the original way of gitting thru this world, but thare iz helth ana independanse in in it, which makes it one of the luxurys of living. The more secrets yu divulge, even to your best friend, the less he will think of yu, and the more he will think ov himself. Ask no favours ov enny man that are not strikly legitimate, If a man iz strikly honest with himself he is sure to be 'so towards others. —Neva York Weekly. '“ •; - - v '«•••■ . —John Henry says he has had a good thing on the “governor,” since he caught him studying the weather report, under the impression that he would learn something about the mutton market __

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NO. 17.

Taking the Early Train. The early morning train from Danbury, leaves at half-past six. This is a very seasonable hour in the summer, when people are stirring, birds carolling their melodies, and the incense from the newly awakened flowers filling the air and inspiring the senses. But in the winter time, with animal and vegetable life dead, the air raw and chilly, the matches mislaid, and a gloomy darkness wrapping the face of the earth, as if with a pall, halfpast six o’clock a. m. is a very unreasonable and disagreeable hour, and the man who has occasion to leave home on that train may easily be pardoned the uneasiness unavoidable the day before. Our legal friend, Prince, received information Friday which made it necessary that he should be in New York before Saturday noon. He contemplated the early start with some misgiving, and determined to make the best preparation for it by getting to bed early. Some people would not have thought of this, and remained up until their usual hour, and either overslept themselves; or have awakened unrefreshed or depressed. Mr. Prince went to bed at 9 o’clock, and got to sleep about half-past eleven. When he awoke it was at the earnest solicitation of Mrs. Prince’s toes, which were digging vigorously into his back, while Mrs. Prince’s hands and Mrs. Prince’s voice were otherwise engaged in his interests. Mr. Prince jumped up at once, and inquired the time, which Mrs. Prince was not able to inform him exactly, but was quite confident by the general feeling and looks that it was hard on to car time. Mir. Prince snatched up his clothes at this, and flew into the sitting-room, and straightway got into his clothes, and then examining his watch, found that it was ten minutes past twelve. “By Crackey,” said Mr. Prince, and immediately returned to bed, and encasing his bead beneath the clothes, preserved a moody silence in answer to Mrs. Prince’s inquiries. It finally dawned on that excellent lady that the hour was too early, and she soon went to sleep. But there was no immediate sleep for her husband. He felt gloomy and dissatisfied, and seemed weighed down with the impression that he was to miss the train in spite of all he could do to avert the calamity. He carefully reviewed his pastlife, arraigning himself as a student, a lawyer, a citizen, and a husband, to see if there was apywhere in his record an act, a word, or a thought, which, by the finest ingenuity could be distorted into a crime for which this losing the train might be considered a fitting judgment. But in vain he went over the pan for such a provocation, and finally assigning the cause to a dispensation of fate none of us can avert, he, too, fell asleep. When he awoke again, he found Mrs. Prince’s toes at his back, and Mrs. Prince's hands on his shoulders, and Mrs. Prince’s voice in his ear, and a vivid impression on his mind that the train had gone, or that the whistle would sound before he could get out of bed. But he arose and hurried into the sitting-room with a show of interest, and drawing on his clothes, again consulted his watch with an air of desperation, and ascertained that it was just two o’clock. He didn’t say “By Crackey!” this time. But it is no matter what he said. He skip- 1 ped back to" the bedroom without any loss of time, and appeared before Mrs. Prince with a lamp in one hand, and a lot of clothes in the other, and with a good deal of fire in his eye. But he blew out the light in silence, and then getting back in bed, gloomily urged her not to do that again or her officiousness might coat her pain. The next time he aroused himself. It was four o’clock. This was a little earlier than was absolutely necessary, but for fear of missing the train he remained up. First, carefully dressing himself, he kindled the fire in the kitchen, and thought of the excellent breakfast he was to carry with him, while Mrs. Prince lay and slept. At half-past seven she awoke of her own accord, and finding the broad daylight streaming into the window, jumped up with sincere regret that Prince had gone without a warm breakfast, and pictured to herself during the toilet, the aching void he would carry with him through the streets of the metropolis. Then she thought of her vexation, and the tears came into her eyes. And then she went into the kitchen and was struck motionless at the sight before her. For there was Prince with a carpet-bag clutched tightly in one hand, and a roil of legal documents in the other, setting bolt upright in a asleep. Astonished and confused by this spectacle, and hardly knowing what she was doing, Mrs.. Prince got the woman in the other part of the house to arouse Mr. Prince, while she stole over to her mother’s to see about something. —Danbury News.

Hottentot Dogs.

We find in Our Dumb Animals that travelers who have visited the Cape of Good Hope give wonderful accounts of the fidelity and sagacity of the Hottentot dogs. They are chiefly employed to guard their master’s flocks against the lions, leopards and tigers which abound in the surrounding country. No dog, single-handed, would be a match for one of these fearful beasts-, and therefore the powers of combination and organization are developed in these dogs to a remarkable degree. At night, when the flock is assembled in one place, four dogs station themselves as sentinels at equa) distances along the line of danger, and watch in a sitting position,.the head stretched out to catch the slightest noise. Nor does their power of organization end here. All good defense requires a patrol, and the four dogs take turns, hour by hour, in walking up and down before the camp, listening to and-watching intently to give immediate warning of the enemy’s approach. If a tiger or a leopard comes in sight, the sentinel utters a cry of alarm, and the other dogs instantly assemble, and throw themselves, en masse, upon the intruder, who finds their united strength too much for him. Sometimes, however, the enemy comes in force, in which case the dogii utter long, plaintive cries, to call to their* assistance the guard of the neighboring flock, who respond to the signal, and expect similar aid in their hour of danger. These remarkable dogs have ho external beauty to recommend them. Their colors is a dirty gray. They have square paws, pointed noses, stiff ears, and very rough hair. They are nevertheless regarded by the Hottentot as members of his family. They have their fights by the fireside, and are taken care of and fed like the children of the house. —A boy while coasting in the streets of Minneapolis, the other day, collided with a lady pedestrian wd Wfok« her h|g.